Hardware

Improving efficiency in neural network accelerator using operands hamming distance optimization
Neural network accelerator is a key enabler for the on-device AI inference, for which energy efficiency is an important metric. The …
Meng Li, Yilei Li, Vikas Chandra
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Co-exploration of neural architectures and heterogeneous asic accelerator designs targeting multiple tasks
Neural architecture search (NAS) has shown great promise in designing state-of-the-art (SOTA) models that are both accurate and …
Lei Yang, Zheyu Yan, Meng Li, Hyoukjun Kwon, Liangzhen Lai, Tushar Krishna, Vikas Chandra, Weiwen Jiang, Yiyu Shi
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A Synergistic Framework for Hardware IP Privacy and Integrity Protection
Publised by Springer, UT Austin Margarida Jacome Outstanding Dis- sertation Prize, EDAA Outstanding Dissertation Award, ACM Student Research Competition Grand Final First Place
Meng Li, David Z. Pan
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A Practical Split Manufacturing Framework for Trojan Prevention via Simultaneous Wire Lifting and Cell Insertion
The advancing of reverse engineering techniques has complicated the efforts in intellectual property protection. Proactive methods have …
Meng Li, Bei Yu, Yibo Lin, Xiaoqing Xu, Wuxi Li, David Z. Pan
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A Practical Split Manufacturing Framework for Trojan Prevention via Simultaneous Wire Lifting and Cell Insertion
Neural network accelerator is a key enabler for the on-device AI inference, for which energy efficiency is an important metric. The …
Meng Li, Bei Yu, Yibo Lin, Xiaoqing Xu, Wuxi Li, David Z. Pan
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Provably secure camouflaging strategy for IC protection
The advancing of reverse engineering techniques has complicated the efforts in intellectual property protection. Proactive methods have …
Meng Li, Kaveh Shamsi, Travis Meade, Zheng Zhao, Bei Yu, Yier Jin, David Z Pan
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Provably secure camouflaging strategy for IC protection
The advancing of reverse engineering techniques has complicated the efforts in intellectual property protection. Proactive methods have …
Meng Li, Kaveh Shamsi, Travis Meade, Zheng Zhao, Bei Yu, Yier Jin, David Z Pan
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Practical public PUF enabled by solving max-flow problem on chip
The execution-simulation gap (ESG) is a fundamental property of public physical unclonable function (PPUF), which exploits the time gap …
Meng Li, Jin Miao, Kai Zhong, David Z Pan
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Characterization of Random Telegraph Noise in Scaled High-κ/Metal-Gate MOSFETs with SiO2/HfO2 Gate Dielectrics
In the paper, random telegraph noise (RTN) in high-κ/metal-gate MOSFETs is investigated. The RTN in high-κ MOSFETs is found different …
Meng Li, Runsheng Wang, Jibin Zou, Ru Huang
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